Customer: You charged me for ten artichokes, but you only gave me nine. Grocer: Too bad. You should have counted them before you paid for them. Customer: Cheats never prosper, you know.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
cheats never prosper — Also cheaters, esp. in US. Cf. a 1612 J. HARINGTON Epigrams (1618) IV. 5 Treason doth neuer prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason. 1805 R. PARKINSON Tour in America II. xxix. It is a common saying in England,… … Proverbs new dictionary
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cheater — A term associated with the ‘swaggering rascal’, ‘the foul mouth’dst rogue in England’, namely Pistol, Sir John Falstaff’s ensign in Henry the Fourth Part Two (2:iv). Falstaff describes him as ‘no swaggerer, hostess; a tame cheater, i’ faith’.… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
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cheat — see cheats never prosper … Proverbs new dictionary
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